from the 12” single, Jumpin & Pumpin Records, 1991Often times the mark of a truly memorable and/or breathtaking song is its ability to defy categorization, and after all these years, I still don’t know exactly what to label this debut track from British electronic veterans Future Sound of London (FSoL): maybe you could call it ‘progressive breaks’, or ‘proto trance’ perhaps? One thing is for certain however, and that’s the fact that this single took the rave world by storm when it was released, and it has never really gone away since; FSoL chose two rather different sources for sampling inspiration on this track, pairing Meat Beat Manifesto’s raggafied “Radio Babylon” with the ethereal sounds of “Dawn of the Iconclast”, care of the avant-classical duo Dead Can Dance. Everything else falls into place perfectly, creating this interplanetary aura which transports the listener into the song’s geographic title, only, as experienced from Mars.
